The Sony PlayStation Network hack of 2011 was the worst 30 days of the history of the company. In this episode we take a look at the timeline of events, understand the motives, assess who was responsible and how the hack actually occurred.

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUGGJpn2_zY
https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/04/21/update-on-psn-service-outages/
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-04-26-sony-admitted-the-great-psn-hack-five-years-ago-today
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/psn-error-80710a06-spoofed-cfws-unable-to-go-online.1319/
https://web.archive.org/web/20130629050249/https://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cbs-News-Spiele-Sony-Playstation-Network-PSN-Anonymous-Details-Security-Apache-OpenSSH-6190529.html
https://www.mobileprivacy.org/2011/04/sony-psn-data-breach-plain-text-vs-hashed-passwords-explained/
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-05-psn-content-exploit-known-for-years
https://web.archive.org/web/20110524001506/http://pastie.org/private/97oth9v5tspkiztwwdmnga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SDCV00ErEs

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